“There’s been a lot of theater in this race,” the former president said Saturday. “Some of it’s been entertaining, and some of it’s been kind of revolting.”

As he has stumped to support his wife, Bill Clinton’s demeanor has swung between exhaustion and irritation at anti-Wall Street protesters, Black Lives Matter activists and Benghazi hecklers.

The potential for more clashes will only increase, with his schedule getting even busier ahead of Tuesday’s New York primary.

He seemed low on energy Saturday morning, when he spoke in a husky voice at a get-out-the-vote event in Albany, the first of the day’s four upstate campaign stops.

“Let’s take a deep breath,” he pleaded to a crowd of 450. “We spend too much time screaming at each other. We need to be neighbors again.”

But the day before, Clinton, 69, lashed out at Sanders and his youthful supporters.

“I think it’s fine that all these young students have been so enthusiastic about her opponent,” he said caustically. “And it sounds so good: ‘Just shoot every third person on Wall Street and everything will be fine.’ ”

The crowd went silent.

“It’s a total joke,” he explained to MSNBC afterward. “You know, we all need to lighten up here, have a little sense of humor.”

“I like protesters, but the ones that won’t let you answer are afraid of the truth,” he bellowed at an April 7 stop in Philadelphia.

The hecklers were decrying the effects Clinton’s 1994 crime bill had on black communities.

“I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out on the street to murder other African-American children,” Clinton
barked. “You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter. Tell the truth.”

And in February, during a speech in North Carolina, he exploded at a military veteran furious over Hillary Clinton’s role in the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

“Shut up and listen,” the former president shouted, as police officers led the man out of the room.

During Saturday’s speech in Albany, Clinton aimed for mellow.

“We need less political extremism and more common sense in government,” he said.

“That’s the meat of the coconut. We are just this close to being able to grow together again. If we do the right things with the right leader and the right direction, we are going to have a
decade that will make the 1990s, when I had the honor to serve, look like just a nice little warm-up.”

Hillary Clinton spent the day in Los Angeles at a $33,400-a-plate campaign fund-raiser with George and Amal Clooney.

In lower Manhattan’s Foley Square, 5,000 people — including the “Divergent” series star Shailene Woodley — gathered in support of Sanders before marching uptown to Union Square.

Sanders spent most of the day in the air as he returned from his Vatican visit, but was slated to meet with the Rev. Al Sharpton in the evening for a “faith and social justice roundtable” in Brooklyn.